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Oldies but Goodies: The Magnetic Fields (Live @ The Queen Elizabeth Theater)

February 9th, 2010

So say one day you hear this great song in a movie or TV show. As soon as the sound hits your ears your brain begins to explode a little. You’re all “ME LIKES THIS SONG” and you go and find out just what the song is. You freeze a little. This ain’t no new [...]

Tags: Add new tag, concerts, good tunes, oldies but goodies, reviews, Skins, Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields
Posted in Blog, Concert Reviews, Music & Videos | Posted by Kate M.

The Treasure Hunt for New Music: Ellie Goulding

February 5th, 2010

I apologize for having not written in so long – I was out in there in the digital mess searching high and low for something and someone I felt deserved your attention. Admist the millions of generic sounds and boring lyrics, I found this little treasure! Ellie Goulding is folktronic, acoustic-electro-pop perfection with a heavy-bassline [...]

Tags: correspondents, ellie goulding, good tunes, music
Posted in Blog | Posted by Megan C

Matt’s Weekly Tunes

February 3rd, 2010

Happy Wednesday, internets. It’s time for another one of my infamous segments of Weekly Tunes (!!!11one!!1!)! So yes. My mega sweet list of three songs that’s I’ve been molesting via iTunes over the past week or so. “Come On Get Higher” – Matt Nathanson (Some Mad Hope, 2007) [listen] “Exogenesis: Symphony, Pt. 1: Overture” – [...]

Tags: correspondents, good tunes, Karen O, matt nathanson, muse, music, power rangers
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Matty - Correspondent

Covers Covered Well: Vol. II

January 20th, 2010

As Kate most beautifully said in a previous blog (see?), there is a fine art to covering music. Covers covered well are great. Covers covered badly are beyond shit: (this!) DAMNIT BRITNEY. Here are some of the great variety: Pomplamoose – “Mrs. Robinson” [listen] This duo does some mean covers, but this has to be [...]

Tags: correspondents, covers, good tunes, music, paramore, scissor sisters, weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Matty - Correspondent

Matt’s Weekly Tunes

January 15th, 2010

Happy Friday, peeps. I’ve decided that I’m going to start doing a weekly segment on Fridays: Weekly Tunes. It’ll be short… but mega sweet. It’ll pretty much just be three songs that I’ve been loveloveloving over the past week. HERE WE GO, SMELLIES. “Zero” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (It’s Blitz!, 2009) [listen] “1901″ – Phoenix [...]

Tags: correspondents, good tunes, music, phoenix, Stars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Matty - Correspondent

Life Lessons With Liz: Vol. 1, Ep. 1

January 15th, 2010

Key Albums of the week: • Beach House – Teen Dream • Vampire Weekend- Contra (stream album) • Dead Man’s Bones – Dead Man’s Bones (Ryan Goslings New Band) • Ke$ha – Animal

Tags: good tunes, liz trinnear, music, vjs
Posted in Just For Fun, Liz Online, Music & Videos | Posted by Liz Trinnear

We Love Free Stuff!

January 14th, 2010

Who doesn’t love free swag? It feels great to be treated every once and a while, especially when that free swag happens to be sick tunes by a bunch of up and coming artists. Here are a few complimentary mp3s for your listening pleasure. The only catch is you are going to have to join [...]

Tags: best coast, correspondents, diry projectors, drake, free, good tunes, Gucci Mane, lykke li, summer camp
Posted in Blog | Posted by Arianne - Correspondent

Metric: Exposed. In 3D, On Ice

January 13th, 2010

So, there’s a band out there. A sorta indie, sorta pop, sorta dance, sorta new wave band. They gotsa sexy as hell lead singer, a questionably high-pitched guitarist, a wicked as hell bassist and yes, they have a (post concert) sweaty ass drummer. They’re the only band that can sport sunglasses indoors and have sex [...]

Tags: albums, correspondents, expose, good tunes, metric, music, on ice
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Matty - Correspondent

The NewMusic’s Best Albums of 2009

December 31st, 2009

If anybody knows a thing’er two about music, it’s the folks who provide the magic behind our NewMusic blog. They put their heads together and devised a list that you should print (or at least copy), store in a safe place and consult on a regular basis. After the jump, the best 20 albums of [...]

Tags: 2009, albums, best, good tunes, lists, newmusic, The NewMusic
Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Cam

Our Fave Albums of 2009

December 31st, 2009

Yeah, yeah. Everyone and their grandpappy is making lists of the best music of 2009. But if we didn’t you’d yell at us, and we hate yelling. It gives us nosebleeds. ANYWAY, we asked a few of our team members to throw in their two cents for albums of the year – after the jump, [...]

Tags: 2009, favourites, good tunes, holiday wrap, lists
Posted in Just For Fun, Music & Videos | Posted by Wendy